Exclusive: Vance discusses his rocky debut and what role he wants to play as Trump’s VP
Vance knows he has had a rocky rollout as Trump’s running mate, but he doesn’t believe he has disappointed the former president.
“No,” Vance said in an interview aboard his campaign plane en route to a rally here yesterday. “I mean, I knew that when I came out of the gate there was going to be a couple of days of positive media coverage and then immediately they would go and attack me over everything that I had ever said in my life.”
Vance has faced relentless criticism from allies of Harris, the de facto Democratic presidential nominee, for his 2021 comments questioning the societal value of women who don’t have children and referring to them as “childless cat ladies.” Harris’ campaign over the last week has tried to brand Vance and his political point of view as “weird.” Trump has stood by Vance.
Harris derides Trump on border security at Georgia rally as GOP presses the issue
Harris, facing a new barrage of GOP attack ads seeking to define her early in her campaign, attacked back on immigration and border security before a fired-up crowd of thousands in an overcapacity arena in Atlanta last night.
Through chants of “Kamala” aimed at her and “lock him up” aimed at Trump, Harris began her line of attack by citing her experience as attorney general of America’s largest border state, California.
“In that job, I walked underground tunnels between the United States and Mexico on that border with law enforcement officers,” Harris said. “I went after transnational gangs, drug cartels and human traffickers that came into our country illegally. I prosecuted them in case after case, and I won.”